After miraculously avoiding a crash, an alcoholic airline pilot is the object of an investigation. Starring Denzel Washington.

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After booze and coke-fuelled night spent in bed with a crewmember, Captain Whip Whitaker takes the helm of a national flight with a raging hangover. Shortly after takeoff in bad weather with a serious technical problem that presages disaster, the pilot manages to take control of his plane and lands it in a field, saving all but six of his passengers. Although now a national hero, Whitaker becomes the object of an investigation that reveals his dependency on alcohol and drugs...

Alcohol and drugs are bad for you. Our thanks go out to the makers of Flight, but we already knew that. And besides, a sermon on addiction from Hollywood producers, set to a soundtrack by the Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker and the Red Hot Chili Peppers – not really models of temperance themselves – shows how much they really don’t care, given that so many singers, actors and directors stars have cheerfully and openly consumed all manner of dope and hooch.